Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies

哈里斯的《考文特花园小姐名录》出版于1757年至1795年，是一本在格鲁吉亚时期的伦敦工作的妓女年度名录。每个版本都包含了描述大约120-190名在考文特花园及其周围工作的妓女的外表和性特长的条目。大多数条目都是对女性的赞美，但它们完全是通过男性的目光和她们给男性快感的能力来描述的。这些都是真实的女人，虽然可能没有使用真名，但她们以卖淫为生。我一直对18世纪的文学和社会史很感兴趣，尤其是因为对性和性行为的态度明显不同。性是生活的一部分，卖淫是司空见惯的事，例如，当季节性工作枯竭时，许多工人阶级妇女就会转向卖淫。在格鲁布街上，色情文学和露骨的版画随处可见，而贞操则是上流社会的特权。笛福的《罗克珊娜和摩尔·弗兰德斯》和克莱兰的《享乐女人回忆录》等小说都是第一人称叙事，妓女讲述她们的故事，逃避罪恶生活的道德后果。克莱兰的小说实际上采用了范妮写给女儿的一封信的形式。霍加斯在《妓女的历程》中饰演的摩尔·哈克约在贫穷中孤独地死于梅毒，她的悲惨命运更有可能是许多妓女的结局，而这个项目希望揭示哈里斯名单中女性的命运，或者至少讲述她们的故事。名单已经被绘制出来了，但我想把提到的女人绘制出来看看她们是否会在妓院里反复出现。我还想看看能否在公共记录中找到他们中的任何一个人，更多地了解他们的生活。从那里，我想写他们的故事，赋予他们生命和表达，超越他们在哈里斯名单上的条目。该项目将包含大量的社会历史元素，旨在为被边缘化的性工作者群体提供能见度和发言权。还包括考文特花园的当地历史。最终的结果要么是一本短篇小说集，要么是一本根据材料而定的小说。

Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, published from 1757 to 1795, was an annual directory of prostitutes working in Georgian London. Each edition contains entries describing the physical appearance and sexual specialities of about 120-190 prostitutes who worked in and around Covent Garden. Most of the entries are complimentary about the women, but they are described entirely through the male gaze and in terms of their ability to give male pleasure. These were real women, although possibly not using their real names who made their living selling sex. I have always been interested in eighteenth-century literature and social history, not least because the attitude towards sex and sexuality was markedly different. Sex was part of life and selling sex was commonplace, many working-class women turning to prostitution when seasonal work dried up, for example. Erotic literature and explicit engravings were freely available in Grub Street, and chastity was the preserve of the polite classes. Novels such as Defoe's Roxana and Moll Flanders and Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, were first-person narratives where prostitutes told their stories and evaded the moral consequences of a life of sin. Cleland's novel actually takes the form of a letter from Fanny to her daughter. The terrible fate of Hogarth's Moll Hackabout in The Harlot's Progress, who dies alone of syphilis in poverty was a more likely end for many prostitutes, and this project looks to uncover the fate, or at least tell the stories of the women in Harris's List.The list has been mapped, but I would like to map the women mentioned and to see if they recur and move around the brothels. I'd also like to see if I can find mention of any of them in the public records, and understand more about their lives. From there, I'd like to write their stories, to give them life and expression beyond their entries in Harris's List.The project would include a large element of social history, aimed at giving visibility and voice to a marginalised community of sex workers. It would also include local history of Covent Garden. The end result would be either a collection of short stories or a novel to be dictated by the material.